Chapter 1: Giving Green Hat?
“Leng Sa! Sasa! Leng Mingyue!” On Yongcheng Anlan University’s beautiful and scenic campus, a young lady holding a few books and wearing a dark blue school uniform strolled. Behind her, a series of urgent shouts were heard. The young lady looked back and saw a sweet-looking, plump girl hurrying to catch up with her, followed by an anxious girl in servant clothing with two braids.
“Sa… Phew, why are you walking so fast?” The young lady finally caught up and leaned on the young lady’s shoulder to catch her breath.
The young lady helplessly reached out to support her, “Why are you in a hurry? Jin Lan, what brings you here?”
“Miss!” The girl wearing servant clothes looked even more anxious. Her eyes were red and she looked like she was going to cry. “Miss, it’s not good! Old Master wants you to return home now!”
“What’s the matter?” Leng Sa asked, frowning.
The plump girl pulled Leng Sa. “Fu Yucheng… Fu Yucheng is going to marry Zheng Ying!”
Leng Sa was stunned, like she heard something funny. She shook her head and asked, “How is that possible?”
The plump girl was so anxious that she stomped her feet and pulled the girl in black clothes next to her, “Jin Lan!”
“Miss, it’s true!” said Jin Lan, almost crying. ” Old master asked you to come home quickly. The Fu Family, the military governor and his wife have already arrived.”
Dufun – provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era
Leng Sa gloomed. She lifted her hand to set her hair which was dangling on her cheek behind her ear. “Wasn’t Zheng Ying the fiancee of the Fu Family’s young master? Even if Fu Yucheng is not satisfied with our Leng family, how can he marry his future sister-in-law?”
The plump girl stared at her, wishing an iron could turn into steel. “Have you forgotten that half a year ago, the eldest son of the Fu Family..” She stopped. After looking around and confirming that there was no one around, she continued in a whisper, “Fu Family’s Young master had been crippled. How could the Zheng family marry their eldest daughter to a cripple?”
TLN: to hate iron for not becoming steel – to feel resentful towards somebody for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvements.
“That’s also…” Although they weren’t living in ancient times, a younger brother will cancel his marriage and will marry his future sister-in-law. Isn’t this too impertinent?
Jin Lan moved closer to Leng Sa and continued in a whisper, “Miss, Miss Zheng… Miss Zheng is pregnant.”
“……”
After being silent for a long time, Leng Sa sighed. “This trick is a good way to take away firewood from under the cauldron.”
The plump girl stomped her foot. “Do you still have time to think about that? If the Fourth young master really cancels his marriage with you, those people will spit on your reputation, and that Zheng Xing, you must not let her on your head!” she bluntly replied.
“What do you want me to do?” Leng Sa said helplessly..
“Of course, you need to take the fourth young master of the Fu family back!” the plump girl said with certainty. “Nowadays, there are not many ideal husbands in Yongcheng who can match with the Fourth young master of the Fu family.”
Leng Sa looked at the sky in silence and muttered, “Thank you. I have no idea of eating shit.”
“What did you say?” The girl looked at Leng Sa suspiciously, Leng Sa’s voice was so low that she didn’t hear her clearly.
Leng Sa shook her head. “Nothing. I’ll go back first.”
“You go quickly!” The plump girl pushed her, “Hurry. Remember to put up a fight. If you don’t toughen up, you’ll be bullied to death by those bitches! You don’t need to worry about school. I‘ll cover for you this entire afternoon.”
Leng Sa nodded. “Okay, I’ll go first then.”
“Go.” The plump girl waved her hand as if shooing a fly. Just in time for the bell to ring, the plump girl quickly turned around and ran in the direction of the school building. As she ran, she did not forget to turn around.
“Leng Mingyue, Goodluck,” she yelled.
Leng Sa couldn’t help but chuckle as she looked at the girl’s leaving back.
“Miss?” Jin Lan looked at her lady with some worry. Her young lady shouldn’t be angry, right?
“Miss, let’s hurry back.”
Leng Sa nodded, slightly narrowing her eyes she muttered something.
Jin Lan, who was flustered, did not catch her young lady’s words.
“That bastard has a lot of courage, how dare he put green on me!”
Leng family was a famous scholar of Anxia. The current old master of the Leng family was the teacher of the previous emperor. Although the emperor had abdicated the throne to his imperial brother more than twenty years ago, the current emperor still returned the power of the government to the hands of the people, therefore the imperial family right now could only be considered a mascot, but the emperor was still the emperor in the end. Twenty years ago, the old master Leng was disheartened and took his family back to his ancestral home in Yongchen, over the years the Leng family gradually declined but their reputation still existed, therefore, three years ago, the third yung miss of the Leng family was able to get engaged to the fourth young master of the Fu family, a family that held the power of six southern provinces.
However, it was originally decided that Leng Sa would get married when she turned 18. But they did not expect that with only six months remaining, the fourth young master of the Fu family would turn his back on his set marriage and go with his lover, who was his future sister-in-law.
Inside the Leng’s Family Hall…
“Old master, my bastard fourth son was confused and did such a disgraceful thing. No matter how you punish him, I have nothing to say about it!” Military Governor Fu, who was sturdy but majestic, pushed his son to the center of the hall with an unpleasant smile.
Although the Fu family was powerful, they couldn’t cover the sky with one hand. This incident was a loss for the Fu family. He had no face to use his power to pressure the Leng family, otherwise the next time he went to the capital, he would be a laughingstock.
Standing in the hall, the fourth young master of the Fu family had turned twenty years old this year. His appearance resembled Madam Fu, handsome, and the slender peach eyes under his brows gave off a somewhat romantic and sense of eagerness, but he was still young with a bit of youthful frivolousness and spirit.
Old Master Leng, with his old and gray hair, thumped the ground twice with a cane and said, “For the fourth young master to do such a thing, are you dissatisfied with my Leng family?”
Fu si shao glanced at the corner of his mouth but did not speak.
TLN: Fu si shao – Fourth young master of Fu Family
Old Master Leng also seemed oblivious. “Even if the fourth young master was not satisfied with our Leng family, or our third lady, you could’ve just said so.”
“Now this… where does the reputation of our Leng family and third lady deserve to be?
“Where does the reputation of the Fourth Young Master and the Eldest Young Master lie?”
Sitting on the side, Military Governor Fu and his wife’s face changed slightly, but did not speak in the end.
Knowing the truth, his fourth son’s disgrace should be punished. If something like this had happened in ancient times, he should be taken directly to the ancestral hall for disposal!
“This is a matter of our Fu family, but Old master Leng seems to have taken too much interest in it, isn’t it? As for Leng Mingyue, I never said I wanted to marry her!” Saying this, Fu si shao did not feel that the old man had any qualifications to criticize him.
Old master Leng choked for a moment, only to chuckle out loud. “Great, this old man is meddlesome. Fourth young master looked down on our family’s third lady, you should have said beforehand. Now things have reached this stage… what will happen to our third lady’s future?”
Beside her, Madam Fu coughed lightly and said, “Old Leng, regarding this matter… shouldn’t we invite the Leng family’s second lady and Mingyue to have a discussion about it together?”
“No need. I’m here, Grandfather.” Just as Madam Fu’s words fell, a faint voice rang out from outside. “If Fourth young master Fu has something to say, just say it.”
Everybody turned around, the second master of the Leng family and the second madame accompanied the young girl, who was still wearing her school uniform, walking in.